This is a collection of articles from the Irish World written by it's editor,Patrick Ford and published posthumously.Ford,born in Ireland in 1835,emigrated to the States to escape the "potato famine" and began his working career as a printers devil at Wllm. Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist paper the "Liberator".After serving in the Union army in the Civil War and briefly publishing a pro-civil rights paper( in Charleston!)Ford founded "the Irish World" in Brooklyn in 1870 and controlled it until his death in 1913.Largely forgoten today,Ford was a pivotal figure in both revolutionary and reformist Irish political movements in the U.S. and contributed to the eventual overthrow of the British Crown in Ireland.Peter Costello in his book"The Irish 100; A Ranking of the Most Influential Irish Men and Women of All Time",ranks Ford at # 10; before Joyce,Swift,& Brian Boru.